Is Malaysia the Regional Leader in International Higher Education? Patrick Blessinger and Enakshi Sengupta International HETL Association and University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus While restructuring its educational policies in the 1990s, the Malaysian government realised it would not be able to provide higher education to a significant proportion of its population through its own public institutions. In 1995, the Malaysian government was faced with a situation where 20% of Malaysian students studied abroad. This cost the country an estimated $800 million USD, nearly 12% of Malaysia’s current account deficit. Malaysia became one of the top countries sending its own students to study abroad. Faced with such a predicament the Malaysian government embarked on a program to turn Malaysia into a fully developed knowledge based economy. To that end, the Malaysian government sought to partner with foreign higher educational institutions to offer more educational opportunities for Malaysians on their own soil. The ultimate aim was...

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Dr. Patrick Blessinger is an adjunct associate professor of education (St. John's University), math and science teacher (New York State Education Department), and research scientist (HETL Association). Dr. Blessinger founded one of the world's largest networks of educators and he has pioneered several innovations in education. He collaborates with academic leaders and scholars around the world on meaningful ways to improve educational policy and outcomes as well as strengthen democracy and human rights by creating sustainable models of education and lifelong learning by working at the nexus of theory, policy, and practice. These collaborations have yielded many scholarly publications and initiatives, as well as many new theories, principles, models, methods, frameworks, taxonomies, and concepts.

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